A PAIR of pensioners from Hinckley were forced to walk more than a mile to get home after a bus driver got confused by the diversion along Coventry Road.

A few hours after Severn Trent began their roadworks along Coventry Road, Janet McGillivray and a friend took a bus back home after shopping in town.

But instead of being dropped off near to Thirlmere Road where she lives, the 75-year-old had to get off near to Dodwells Bridge roundabout after the bus went round the houses and along Normandy Way.

She had taken the Coventry bus back from town with her friend but had to walk the rest of the route despite being laden with shopping.

Janet said: “He wouldn’t stop along Langdale Road. All you have to do is pull over and let them off but he wouldn’t do that. We were coming down Langdale Road and he was busy arguing with us.

“I just think he’d lost his way. He wasn’t really paying attention to where we were. It took nearly an hour and with our shopping it meant we had to keep stopping but luckily we’re not as bad as some others our age.

“He wasn’t bothered at all, he just kept going. We would have ended up in Nuneaton if he hadn’t had stopped.”

Over the next 25 weeks a diversion has been set up along the route of Coventry Road while Severn Trent carry out roadworks. All Hinckley-bound buses will take the A47 to Dodwells roundabout, then take the third exit on to Roston Drive, right on to Glenbarr Drive, left on to Brookdale and then left back on to Coventry Road and follow normal route. Coventry and Nuneaton-bound buses will do the reverse of the above.

But Janet believes the bus driver got frustrated when, instead of turning down Glenbarr Drive, he carried on down Langdale Road, and ended up getting lost.

He still refused to let Janet and her friend off there though and continued on to the roundabout via Brodick Road.